[[WMG:FridgeHorror]]* As the Dukes discuss their wager, which means ruining Louis' life and raising Billy Ray to take his place, Randolph says "We've done it before. [[BlatantLies This time, it's in a good cause.]]". So how many lives have they previously shattered ForTheEvulz before this?** And what did they consider a ''bad cause''?* For that matter, while the Dukes have their fate coming, Winthorpe and Billy Ray also take advantage of other commodities traders, who notice the Dukes' plans and try to profit, too. [[MoralDissonance How many others got bankrupted in their revenge on the Dukes?]]** For clarity, the traders on the floor probably aren't using their own money, and their firms probably aren't, either. *** If a firm used its clients money for its own trades and lost it, not only would the firm go bankrupt, but the people who authorized doing so would go to jail for securities fraud. And even if you make money doing that deal, you're risking getting busted for embezzlement. A conviction for embezzlement or securities fraud will not only put you behind bars for a few years, it will also get your assets seized and liquidated for restitution and get you blacklisted from ever working on Wall Street again. Therefore, anyone who got bankrupted because they played with clients' money during this stunt completely deserved it.*** The other traders would have spent far less initially than the Dukes, and then Winthorpe and Valentine's plan involved buying contracts at huge profits from the other traders except the Dukes' agent. While the Dukes were ruined by this, the other traders would have made losses, but not ruinous ones.** And for that matter, what about the rest of the Dukes' employees? Granted, most of them were like Louis before the movie started, but ''they'' didn't ruin lives. All they know is that the firm they are working for is closed, ''right in the middle of winter.''** The company's assets, including the payroll, were probably auctioned off rather than liquidated, so the only way other people would be harmed is if whoever brought the company from the Dukes caused it.*** One of the trade organizers who calls out the Dukes on their margin call states that their assets will be seized and their seats will be auctioned off. The most that will happen is that "Duke and Duke's" will be under new management and they lose their homes and most of their material possessions (which is tame compared to what they've done to other people).* So we have a poor chap trapped in a gorilla costume and shipped off to Africa (as another gorilla's lover, no less!). This is horrifying enough. Then you realize that he's stuck in that (likely very hot) suit with duct tape over his mouth - he can't eat, drink, or even call out for help. Unless he's lucky enough that someone notices something amiss with the "gorilla," he will likely ''die of dehydration'' during the boat ride!** One would think the costume likely isn't that durable, though that only leads to more bad implications should the large male gorilla uncover him...*** The costume seemed like a desperate improvisation. That '[[AssholeVictim poor chap]]' had the protagonists isolated at gunpoint so he was going to murder four innocent people just so his bosses could stay at the top of the corporate ladder, according to his saying "[[PreMortemOneLiner Your interference ends here]]." Then the gorilla knocked him out, so to prevent him from coming after them they bound him up in the gorilla costume. Locking him in the cage may have been to further keep him from coming after them, they weren't inclined to be generous as he'd been about to kill them and/or RuleOfFunny.

[[WMG:FridgeBrilliance]]* During the final scene, after the Secretary of Agriculture gives out the real crop report, Louis and Billy Ray stop selling and wait for the price to bottom out before they start buying back the contracts they need. Billy Ray is treating it like a joke, but Louis appears a little more desperate. He knows that if they don't acquire the ''number'' of contracts to cover the ones they sold earlier, they will be in almost as much trouble as the Dukes are.** While it seemed that Billy Ray was treating the buying as a joke, he is being specific on ''who'' he buys from. He wants to make sure that Wilson--the Dukes' personal trader--was unable to unload his contracts, despite being in range of both Winthrope and Valentine.* Before the Dukes made their bet, Louis had just found out about Clarence Beeks and his "research". [[HeKnowsTooMuch So, by having him thrown out of their business, they were also making Louis powerless to stop their other scheme]]. Unfortunately for them, they hadn't counted on Billy Ray learning about Beeks and continuing where Louis left off.

[[WMG: FridgeLogic]]* I know Louis goes off the rails once he no longer has luxury. But why doesn't he just ''search'' for another job. He's a graduate of '''Harvard''', and he's still pretty young. He could easily go to a library, type up a resume, land an interview. He has excellent social skills. ** The drug and embezzlement charges would be a pretty nasty stain to overcome though, especially if they weren't dropped immediately.** Also that was his plan until he got sick and was ordered on bed rest by Ophelia. Seeing Valentine's photo in the paper set him off again.** He was accused of stealing from a private social club. All of those members and anyone who knows them would likely blacklist him, meaning there's zero chance he'd get a job anything close to what he had before. And someone like him is not likely to start at the bottom all over again, especially when it appears his social contacts were a large part of what got him there in the first place.** [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse Did Louis ever get over those charges after he became wealthy again and had the Dukes bankrupted]]?* Exactly who are those two random women who are paired up with Billy Ray and Coleman on the beach at the end? Neither of them was even in the movie before.----